Dear Editor: I was delighted to read the report on the "Future" of the AHA in the September issue of Perspectives. It bodes well for the future that the Association is taking such efforts. Would that ...

January and early February are clean-up time at the Association's headquarters. The clean-up consists in carrying out the decisions of the meetings of the Council and in other implementing and bill-pa...

Every year since 1974, a professor from an American university has taught for a semester in the department of American history at Moscow State University. Over the course of four months, this professo...

Dear Editor, When Dr. Angie Debo began her career studying history, she was one of a brave handful of women who were challenging an intensely masculine preserve. Indeed, during the period of Dr. Debo'...

Office of Personnel Management Revises Qualification Standard for Historians Last spring the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) circulated for comment a statement draft on qualification standards fo...

I have taught the required history survey course for twenty-five years with mixed results. During this time, both its content and the background of the students to whom it was offered have changed mar...

Peter Boyle, University of Nottingham, England, was selected as Wayne Aspinall Lecturer at Mesa College, Colorado. Professor Boyle will deliver a fifteen-lecture series on the history of U.S.-Soviet r...

Groggily I groped in my sleep to still the persistent ringing of what I thought was my alarm arousing me for my 8:00 a.m. class, but in fact it was the telephone! Who in the world could be calling at ...

Editor's Note: This statement of plagiarism is a reprint of policy adopted by the AHA Council as part of the AHA's Statement of Professional Conduct. Currently, the Association has been asked to addre...

The last of the three divisional committees of the Association to hold its fall meeting was that of the Professional Division. It convened on November 18 to consider a heavy agenda that required a num...